Modern furniture not only looks great in your home but also works wonders and looks great in your office, if you think about it, you spend most of your time at work, so why not spend that little bit extra on modern office furniture and enjoy your office environment as much as you would at home. First impressions are crucial no matter the size of your company, how many hours are spent negotiating deals in a plain boring
office, imagine sitting on your newly designed office space purposely designed to meet your specifications.
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With the emphasis mainly on green and recycled materials, this month saw the Jacob K Javits Convention centre in New York turning its 145,000 sq ft area into North America’s largest International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). The 4 day event organised by George Little Management saw more than 22,000 visitors passing through the doors, with 600 exhibitors spanning from more than 32 countries showing off all their contemporary furniture, seating, lighting, textiles and wall coverings.
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When we here someone talk about modern designer furniture we automatically think ‘expensive’. There is so much more to this furniture than meets the eye. Often with sweeping lines and classic designs there will be a unique piece that suits your personal taste and fits ideally with your home decor. How do you find that graceful piece for your home? With literally thousands of pieces on display at a click of a button how do you choose what is best suited for your needs? There are several factors involved when choosing that special piece. We like to call this: ‘the who, the what and when’.
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City Centre’s could become ever more attractive to the modern social shopper. As many high street stores struggle to compete against the buying power of online shopping, this may be a solution that brings the best of two worlds together. The Solar Powered WiFi Bench is more than just a modern design concept bench as its name suggests.

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Looking for the something special, exciting, different for your office, home or even bedroom. Well we were, and decided that the internet always surprises ourself when on exploration for new modern furniture stories and yet again, it didn’t dissapoint. Here are a few of out findings which we thought was suitable to publish (the ones that got left on the cutting-room floor, well even weird was too kind a word for them.) Hope you like, our weirdest furniture collection…

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The recent Milan furniture fair (22 to 27 April 2009) threw up some fantastic new ranges from some of Europe’s top designers but it also had a few modern furniture critics wanting to throw-up. Some critics, claim it to be “The worst show in the world”, while others just come right out and tell it like it is, “They only exhibit kitsch furniture, the kind that you’d see in a luxurious brothel.” Stinging comments indeed, but it is this mix of majestic and ‘muddy’ awful that has seen the show sell-out for the last 48 years.

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We all love to make our homes look great, how much are we prepared to spend on that piece of modern designer furniture? We have had a browse through the internet and found the most expensive pieces that may look great in any home (maybe?)

The worlds most expensive piece is this Badminton Cabinet, sold for £19 million, commissioned in 1726 by Hendry Somerset, it cost him originally £500 and 94 pounds in export duties. It took 30 craft men 6 years to finish.
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